Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

The globalization movement, the growing processes of internationalization and opening of markets that have been observed over recent decades have brought with them a significant increase in cross-border movements, with expatriation assuming a prominent role. However, if expatriation is a reality...

Purpose: In today's global business environment, international assignments have become integral part of employee's job profile. Adaptation to a different cultural environment plays a role in affecting employee's performance. In such a situation, cultural intelligence plays an important role. In...

Database searches of the literature show that studies integrating organizational networks and cross-cultural leadership research are in short supply. One explanation could be underwhelming motivation to integrate research areas that historically lack consent among scholars. What makes this...

Purpose - In the study of expatriation and expatriate adaptation, there are limited studies that focus on issues faced by expatriates working in foreign countries with very distinct cultures. This study aims to explore this idea through the experiences of western expatriates working in the...

Multinational companies transfer managerial practices such as quality management globally. Studies from different perspectives have examined cultural, institutional, and organizational challenges in practice transfer, however, little is known about the micro-processes of intercultural transfer,...

International Leadership: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World -- Enacting Opportunities Across Borders -- Early and Rapid or Late and Slow? -- Cooperation with Distributors in Arabic-Speaking Countries -- The Curious Case of Leadership in International Branch Campuses in...

People may finance entrepreneurs, often family members. Here, the question is: how has the COVID-19 pandemic affected people's funding of family-related entrepreneurs and non-family-related entrepreneurs? The pandemic predictably reduced the funding of family-related entrepreneurs and especially...

Leading people from diverse cultures is centrally important in organizations. This study investigates the extent to which transformational leadership behaviors are universal: by examining if leaders and followers perceive transformational leadership behaviors the same way across cultures; and by...

Developing cultural diversity skills is a major ethical challenge for organizations operating within marginalized communities. This study defines cultural intelligence profiles us a two-step approach. In the first step, managers (n = 31) are invited to complete a Cultural Intelligence Quotient...

The aim of the paper is to reveal how corporate social performance (CSP) affects market value and earnings capabilities of companies from banking industry: Banking Services and Investment Banking & Investment Services sub-industries in particular. For Banking Services, the research was extended...

Multicultural globally-dispersed virtual teams (MGVTs) have become an integral part of many global organizations. Geographical dispersion, cultural diversity and dependence on technology to communicate place many challenges to the effective work in MGVTs. In this paper we suggest to integrate...

This research accounts for mixed findings in financial scarcity research by identifying culture-specific norms of deference that determine how consumers spend discretionary income. Three studies showed that when financially constrained, Americans were relatively less likely than Indians to...

Cross-cultural work environments pose a particular challenge for the organizations that set up and operate a company abroad, especially in terms of job satisfaction, employee retention and motivation. This article aims to investigate cross-cultural interactions between Thai and Chinese people,...